15. Obama for Pres, Non Americans?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/project_syndicate/2012/11/campaign_2012_obama_would_be_the_choice_for_non_americans_if_they_could.html

             Joseph E. Stiglitz, the author of the article "It's Obama World," affirms that people outside the United States would vote for Obama. He states the reasons for the hypotheses: the market would be deregulated like in past times with Reagan as president and other countries who eventually followed the  American economic system had an unequal division between poverty and wealthy and had a much weaker middle class. The author also states that Romney's economic plans for the country actually hurt the economy even more. Obama has also proposed a much more efficient health care plan while Romney has nothing to say.
            The author uses several rhetorical strategies to achieve his purpose which is to show how non Americans abroad would prefer Obama as President rather than Romney. The author first uses ab hominum which is a direct criticism of Romney's Presidential plans. The author states that Romney would waste more money in the army with weapons that don't work to fight off enemies which don't exist. That clearly is the use of sarcasm and playful negative criticism. The author then tries to praise the plans of Obama and compare and contrast it with Romney.